The eXchanger - The eXchangers' Thread - Quotes to Ponder

Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is
unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but
requires all mankind to share it. ~ Mary Baker Eddy

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes
only if you generously consent to share them.

~ Albert
Camus

Happiness comes when your work and words are of
benefit to yourself and others. ~ Siddhartha Gautama

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the
absence of fever, then I will never know happiness.
For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge,
experience, and creation. ~ Anaïs Nin

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and
does it well. ~ E. Merrill Root

There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden.
Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?
~ Brigitte Bardot

The best place to hide
is right out in the open

Bill Ryan

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
~ Louisa May Alcott

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources
of unhappiness.
~ Eric Hoffer,
The Passionate State of
Mind

I happy am, if well with you. ~ Anne Bradstreet

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on
the way we see them. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass through a
thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its
original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart,
like the converged light on a mirror; it reflects
itself with redoubled brightness.
It is not perfected
till it is shared
. ~ Jane Porter

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is
happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish
preparation? ~ Jane Austen

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where
dreams may go. ~ Louise Driscoll

We are the wire, God is the current.
Our only power is
to let the
current pass through us.

Carlo Carretto

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain
sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

Carl Jung

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"See how the boy is with his sister and the other ones of his home lodge and you can know how the man will be with your daughter."

--LAKOTA Proverb

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience
is not the same
you that comes out the other side.


-Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English"

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness.
If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal
of what it is the world needs most.

Pablo Casals

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your
whole world seems upset.

Saint Francis de Sales

If you wish to understand yourself, you must succeed in doing so in the
midst of all kinds of confusions and upsets. Don't make the mistake of
sitting dead in the cold ashes of a withered tree.

-Emyo

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
The only thing that's been a worse flop
than the organization of nonviolence has been
the organization of violence.

Joan Baez

"don't argue with an idiot ...
the people watching might not be able to tell the difference"
~ Kenny Frost

Since body and soul are radically different from one
another and belong to different worlds, the
destruction of the body cannot mean the destruction of
the soul, any more than a musical composition can be
destroyed when the instrument is destroyed.

- Oscar Cullman.